ODC/Dance Presents: Summer Sampler
July 28 - 30, 2022 | 7:30 PM
ODC Theater
Digital Encore available August 12th
Delight in the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience renowned company favorites, including Brenda Way’s witty reflection on unrestrained self interest in Unintended Consequences (A Meditation), Kimi Okada’s award winning examination of secret languages in Two If By Sea, KT Nelson’s Going Solo for ODC veteran Private Freeman, Amy Seiwert’s heartfelt duet Veronica & Vincent, and Dexandro Montalvo’s Impulse, an explosive quartet for four women.
Summer Sampler wraps with the ODC 50+ Anniversary Block Party, a free to all celebration of the ODC campus at 17th and Shotwell Streets in the heart of the Mission District. Featured events include KT Nelson's mobile magnum opus Path of Miracles, short works choreographed by members of ODC/Dance, and much more for the whole family!
Unintended Consequences (A Meditation)
Choreography by Brenda Way
Unintended Consequences (A Meditation) premiered in 2008 set to music by renowned performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Commissioned by the Equal Justice Society, an Oakland, California-based organization working to transform the nation’s consciousness on issues of race and social justice, Unintended Consequences “offers a cutting critique of human relationships, and of how easily we become isolated” (The New York Times). The work considers the effects of America’s fetish of individualism and its perversion into “every man for himself.”
Two If By Sea
Choreography by Kimi Okada
Described as a duet in which the dancers evolve “from competitors into soft-shoed lovers” (San Francisco Chronicle), Two If By Sea is Okada’s poignant and comic masterpiece, a work which manages to combine flamenco, vaudeville and Morse code, set to a score by Steve Reich. In 2015, Two If By Sea received an Izzie award for outstanding achievement in choreography.
Going Solo
Choreography by KT Nelson
ODC/Dance premiered Going Solo in 2016 in honor of Private Freeman’s return to the company after an absence of seven years. Freeman joined the company in 1996, leaving in 2008 to reenlist in the National Guard and to take on other projects. He returned in 2015 where he remains today as the dancer of longest duration in the company’s history. With choreography by KT Nelson and Freeman, and direction by Nelson, this summer Freeman will reprise the role he originated.
Veronica & Vincent
Choreography by Amy Seiwert
Set to a score by violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, Seiwert’s Veronica and Vincent narrates the story of a true-life relationship. Roumain blends his original violin composition with snippets of an interview he recorded with an elder from his neighborhood recounting, with some regret, her relationship with her deceased husband. Veronica and Vincent premiered in 2011, and was later reimagined as a film which premiered in 2013.
Impulse
Choreography by Dexandro Montalvo
Created in 2014, and featuring music by Someone Else & Miskate, Impulse celebrates “individuality, physicality and ferocity of movement.” The piece was nominated for an Izzie award for outstanding choreography.
Choreographers
Header image by Andrew Weeks
All ticket sales are final. Performances, dancers, and guest artists subject to change.
Proof of up to date vaccination status is required for all in-person activities. Learn more at odc.dance/reopening.
ODC graciously thanks the following institutions for their support of Summer Sampler:
Anonymous
Bernard Osher Foundation
CalOSBA
Hellman Foundation
John and Marcia Goldman Foundation
Koret Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
SF Grants for the Arts
Sakana Foundation
Shubert Foundation
U.S. Small Business Administration
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation